Treelet or tree to 4 m. Leaves 9.5–31 by 4–12 cm, oblanceolate or obovate, glabrous or with a few hairs on midrib abaxially; base cordate or obtuse, rarely acute or cuneate; nerves (7–)9–14 on each side; petiole 2–5(–15) mm. Flowers solitary or usually in a few-flowered thyrse, 4.5–20 cm, axillary to supra-axillary, sometimes subtended by a minute bract, fragrant; axes glabrous to weakly pubescent; bracts 2–5(–12) mm, linear-lanceolate, rarely foliaceous; pseudopedicels (5–)8–19 mm. Calyx (2.5–)3–6 mm long, persistent in fruit, margin truncate or shallowly 4– (or 5–)lobed, lobes deltate or obtuse, aestivation open. Petals 4, 4–8 cm long, ligulate, imbricate, recurved at anthesis, cream. Filaments united to about halfway; tube 3.6–6.7 cm, 1–3 mm diam., cylindrical, glabrous to rarely sparsely hairy without, pubescent within or sometimes glabrous in distal half; anthers 2–15(–23), 3–6.5 by 0.5–1 mm, glabrous. Disk 0.5–1.5 mm long, 2 mm diam., patelliform or cyathiform, glabrous or hairy. Ovary 4-locular, locules with 4–8 ovules in 2 vertical rows; style slender; stylehead capitate. Berry 1.2–1.8 cm long, globose to ellipsoid and beaked, often constricted between seeds; pericarp thin, fleshy. Seeds 2–5.
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